Grimes quotes

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.
-- Grimes

#Order #Want #Moral

I like creating beauty out of scary things.
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#Creating #Scary #Scary Things

Lets make it known that we don't want to give away our beautiful homeland to corporate interests. It is our right as Canadians to be part of these decisions. The only thing standing between this world and environmental catastrophe is us
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#Beautiful #Giving #Decision

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
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#Song #Shiver

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
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#Issues #Rights #Environmental

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
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#Art #Crazy #Going Crazy

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.
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#Sick #Performing

I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.
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#Jeans #Wells

I listen to a lot of medieval music.
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#Medieval

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.
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#Sentimental #Persons

I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
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#Fashion #Want #Sci Fi

I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.
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#Sick #Cold #Montreal

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.
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#Stuff #Obsessed

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
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#Idols

If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
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#Focus #Development #Too Much

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.
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#Icons #People #Musician

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.
-- Grimes

#Heart #Broken #Care

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.
-- Grimes

#Challenges #Trying #Quality

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.
-- Grimes

#Humanity #The End Of The Day #Portraits

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
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#Desire #Way #Intense

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.
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#Population #Vancouver #Grew Up

Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.
-- Grimes

#Girl #Fun #Crazy

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
-- Grimes

#Tired #Size #Fit

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
-- Grimes

#Consistency #Impressionable

The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.
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#People #Looks #Good Times

I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.
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#Hate #Shoes #People

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
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#Holocaust #Nuclear #Should

Especially with music, people want confidence.
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#People #Want

Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
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#Fashion #Powerful #Taken

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.
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#Creative #Age #Unhappy

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
-- Grimes

#Video #Bigs #Interest

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.
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#Jobs #Thinking #Montreal

I don't own anything designer.
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#Designer

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.
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#Important #Feels

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.
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#Toss #Painting

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
-- Grimes

#Believe #Mind #Humans

I always wanted to be really experimental.
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#Wanted

I love humanity, I love the way people look
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#People #Humanity #Looks

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.
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#Rocks #Tin #Done

My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.
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#Block #Artist #People

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.
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#Girl #Kind #Pops

In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.
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#Cities #America #May

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.
-- Grimes

#Thinking #Missing #Links

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
-- Grimes

#Thinking #Way #Audience

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
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#Video #Made

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.
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#Play #People #Saws

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
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#Thinking #Innovative

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
-- Grimes

#Creativity #Stimulation #Term